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| HER Number | MWB6056 |
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| Record Type | Monument |
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| Name | MIDGHAM STATION (GWR) |
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Summary
Railway station in Woolhampton village, on Great Western Railway branch line
Other Statuses and Cross-References
- Berkshire SMR No. (pre 2000): 05053.15.010
Monument Type(s):
Full Description
Midgham station is in the village of Woolhampton. The name was changed in 1873 <4> <7> allegedly following confusion amongst passengers with similarly sounding Wolverhampton.
The original wooden station, booking office and waiting room burnt down on 31 January 1888 and were subsequently replaced <4>.
There is a 1930s wooden shelter on the platform at Midgham Station. There also used to be a Grade II listed station nameboard, which was made of timber on two steel posts and which read 'MIDGHAM FOR DOUAI SCHOOL'. Although the board was described as a late 19th century structure, it must have post-dated the setting up of Douai School in 1903. A site visit in 2009 by West Berkshire Council officers indicated that this board had been removed, and it was eventually delisted in 2013 <2>.
West Berkshire Museum has a photograph showing the station in 1919 <6>.
Sources and further reading
| <01> | Historic England (previously English Heritage). ?-present. NMR Buildings Files on Historic England Archive. BF005778. [Index / SWB147173]
https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/ (Accessed 21/04/2020) |
| <02> | English Heritage. 25/06/2013. De-listing Advice report - Station Nameboard at Midgham Station on Down Platform (Designation Decision Record). EH Case No 480034. pdf. [Unpublished document / SWB148437]
https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1416024&resourceID=8 (Accessed 26/05/2015) |
| <03> | Alan Baxter & Associates LLP. 2012. Great Western Main Line Route Structures Gazetteer. WBC Network. BHL 4656. [Unpublished document / SWB148447]
https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/gwml-gazetteer/ (Accessed 21/12/2015) |
| <04> | Simmonds, P. 2014. A history of the Berks and Hants line Reading to Westbury. [Monograph / SWB148853] |
| <05> | Page and Ditchfield (eds). 1923. Victoria County History (VCH) Berks III 1923. Vol 3. p312, 444. [Monograph / SWB10005]
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3 (Accessed 08/03/2022) |
| <06> | Museum Curator. Newbury Museum Accession Records (West Berkshire Museum since 1998). 2022 WBC Network. NEBYM:1983.145.2. [Unpublished document / SWB14452] |
| <07> | Trigg, J. 2009. Before the Fountain - A View of Victorian Woolhampton and Midgham (Revised Edition). p34-6. [Monograph / SWB148931] |
Related Monuments
| MWB20160 | Site of Midgham goods shed (Monument) |
| MWB20159 | Site of Midgham signal box (Monument) |
| MWB6055 | ALDERMASTON TO MIDGHAM RAILWAY LINE (Monument) |
| MWB6057 | MIDGHAM STATION TO THATCHAM STATION RAILWAY LINE (Monument) |
| MWB5285 | WOOLHAMPTON VILLAGE (Monument) |
| MWB21978 | Clock House, Station Road, Woolhampton (Building) |
| MWB16428 | Douai Abbey and the former Douai School (Building) |
Associated Excavations and Fieldwork
| EWB1265 | History and Significance of the Great Western Main Line |
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